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STAR REPORTERS: ETHAN AND HANNAH

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Hello, we are the star reporters! I’m Ethan and this is Hannah S. We are going to tell you about the things that we have been doing in the week!

On Monday we had a special visitor called Mr.Prout. He came from Standish high school and he showed us a differant way to do grid method. This method is called column multplacation, and some of us found it a little bit difficult.

On Tuesday, we went on a eco trip! When we walked out we couldn’t believe what we saw! A bright blue double decar bus! We learnt all about Reduce,Reuse and Recycle and differant types of energy.We Reused plastic cups,to make bird feeders and our hands were very sticky and we didn’t like the smell of our hands but we had a brilliant time! In the afternoon,we had p.e! We were learning basketball but unfortunatly, we didn’t have very long. We were practicing catching and keeping control with the ball.

On Wednesday,in the afternoon we had a really fun guitar lesson! We practiced a song called Big Blue Bear! It was a really enjoyable lesson!

On Thursday, we wrote an opening to our own Michael Morpurgo style story! Also it was our very first parents evening in year 5! Later,after dinner we Researched  South America! Me and My partner McCauley reasearched Angel Falls in Venezuala. Ethan and his partner Matthew W,they researched a place called Machu Pichu!

On Friday, we converted meters to centimeters and kilometers to meters! We had a very special harvest assembly. Everybody brought some food to donate to the Brick! I brought some differant soups! Ethan brought tomato soup and some rasberry jam!

Thankyou for reading our blog! We hope you enjoyed reading about our week.

 

DISASTROUS DAY AT THE ZOO

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Your homework this weekend is to write a story opening about a disastrous trip to the zoo. Remember everything we have been talking about in our English lessons where we have been writing in the style of Michael Morpurgo. Use show me sentences! Do not tell the reader what is happening, make them guess from what you are showing them in your writing. For example, instead of saying ‘the boy was angry’, you might write ‘he clenched his fists and his face turned as red as a traffic light’. Challenge yourself to use as many of the descriptive features we have discussed in class as possible!

The best story opener wins a prize!

P.S Well done to Hana Komurcu for winning last weeks setting description competition!

I’m looking forward to your magnificent comments. Don’t forget to comment on someone else’s homework and tell them what you liked about it!

Mr Lyons

WE ARE GREEN WARRIORS!

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We had a fantastic time on Tuesday morning visiting the Wigan Warriors Community Foundation at Central Park to become green warriors! We learned lots of new things about energy and recycling, learned how heat pumps and solar panels work, conducted our own experiments and made our own bird feeders to take home! It was such a busy and exciting morning that we were late back for out dinner! Luckily the dinner staff saved our dinners for us and the adults from Wigan Warriors and Mitsubishi Electric wanted to say well done year 5 for your outstanding behaviour on the day!

I would love to know, what was your favourite part of the trip?

 

Mr Lyons

STAR REPORTERS: HARRIS & KATIE

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Hello we are  Harris and Katie.

We are the class star reporters and we would like to tell you about the things we have been doing. On Monday we were experimenting with the parashoute because we were looking at air resistance, and we also made some spinners! It was really fun!

On Tuesday, we played hockey with Mrs.Richards and congratulations to Harris ,Kian ,Will ,Nithu , Ethan , Eve L , Hannah S and Jessica who made the hockey team! Also, congratulations to Matthew W, Rebecca, Scarlett , Eve L , Ben M and Ben syner who going to go to the swimming gala!

On Wednesday we did our reasearch on Micheal Mopourgo where we had lots of fun finding out information about him such as; he likes elephants, he loves eating prawns, he was evacuated during World War 2 and his favourite sports are football and rugby. We also did guitar wher we learned a great new song called ‘the big blue bear’.

On Thursday , we wrote a dairy entry about Mr.Bean going to the dentist. After dinner, we learned about internet safety and how to be safe when downloading.

On Friday , we did some co-ordinates in Maths. Some of us used co-ordinates to make secret messages and others made pictures of Olaf! Then, we did presentations on Micheal Mopourgo , that we had been practising it was really fun!!

Thankyou!

 

SPOOKY SETTING DESCRIPTIONS!

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Your homework this weekend is to write a spooky setting description about this picture. Remember to include the 5Ws in your writing. What can you see? hear? touch? smell? taste? Challenge yourself to use as many similes, alliteration and personification as you can! Make sure you don’t scare yourself too much! The best description will win a dip in the box!

I can’t wait to read your ideas!

Mr Lyons

DOUBLE ACT COMPREHENSION

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For your homework this weekend, click on the book cover to be taken to the e-book and read pages 1-5  and answer the following questions in a comment!

1. What are the names of the twins?

2. Can you list any differences between Ruby and Garnet?

3.  What are Ruby’s ‘special weakness’?

4. Who came first at sports day?

5. Who is the eldest twin?

6.  Why aren’t Dad’s eyes always open properly?

7. Who made all of the twins clothes?

8. Would you be friends with the twins? Why or why not?

9.  Why were the twins a ‘laughing stock’ at school?

10. What does laughing stock mean?

 

I can’t wait to see your answers!

Mr Lyons

ANGLE INVESTIGATORS

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This week, we have been doing lots of work on angles and we decided to have a look around the playground and the school to see how many different angle types we could find whether it was acute, obtuse, a right angle or reflex, we had fun spotting them. Can you spot any angles at home or around school?

 

Mr Lyons

FRIENDLY FUNDRAISER

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Recently we held our Friday Fundraiser in our classroom, and we had a wide variety of stalls, from cake sales to guess the rugby player and even name the dog! It certainly was exciting and we enjoyed raising a whopping £145.56! Well done to everyone for their hard work on the day and for all the different things you made for our fundraiser!

 

Mr Lyons

THE WORST WITCH

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CLICK HERE TO VIEW CHAPTER ONE OF THE WORST WITCH

After reading the first 3 pages of the chapter and then answer the following questions in a comment!

1) What is the name of the school?

2) Describe the school.

3) Describe the school uniform.

4) Do you think it was a nice school to go to? Why?

5) What is different to this school than Woodfield?

6) Who is the main character of the story?

7) Is she a good school pupil or not? How do you know?

 

Have a good weekend and I’m looking forward to seeing if you can find some of those tricky answers!

Mr Lyons

WELCOME BACK!

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a great summer! We’ve got lots of fun and exciting things to learn about in Year 5 this year, starting with South America as our topic! The header of our blog is of a famous South American landmark which we will learn about in the coming weeks!

 

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Can anybody think what it might be? or where it might be? Leave your thoughts in a comment!

Mr Lyons